Desert of Lies. (1984)

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First broadcast 13th March 1984.  Jake and Sue's expedition to the Kalahari Desert in 1983 follows in the footsteps of an earlier trek in 1848 by two missionaries.  Cherie Lunghi - Sue Mick Ford - Jake Tim Wylton - George Terence Rigby - Isaiah Broom Tom Bell - Abel Broom Elizabeth Bell - Sarah Broom Nicola Wright - Ruth Broom Elizabeth Anson - Esther Broom Mel Warren - Jonah Broom Samantha Lewis - Susannah Broom Toby Scopes - Daniel Broom Niklaus Cashman - Hosea Broom Rufus Sefothoma - 1st Bushman John Matshikiza - 2nd Bushman Paul Jesson - Bryan - Newspaper Editor Louis Mahoney - Sylveste Michael Bilton - Missionary Society Secretary Peter Cartwright - South Africa Official Craig Crosbie - Person at Party Sara Heliane Elliot - Person at Party (as Sara-Héliane Elliot) Nicholas Frankau - Person at Party Robin Hayter - Person at Party Joanna Lane - Person at Party Elizabeth McKechnie - Person at Party Ian Michie - Person at Party Jane Myerson - Person at Party Barry Stearn - Person at Party

Transcript

00:00:28Transcription by CastingWords

00:00:52Therefore, Isaiah Broom, after long consideration and prayer,

00:00:58as to the strength of your calling to be a missionary of the Lord's Word,

00:01:03we, the elders of the London Missionary Society, now send you forth.

00:01:09That desolate part of Africa to which he calls you

00:01:13will be a hard place for you and your family,

00:01:19hard to the body and to the spirit.

00:01:23You seek to bring to the Lord a most strange and savage race.

00:01:29You will endure many trials and many dangers,

00:01:35but the Lord will protect you.

00:01:38We are all folded in his mighty wings.

00:01:53Take the word of the Lord unto the ends of the earth,

00:01:57and may he be with you always.

00:02:08All people that on earth do dwell,

00:02:14sing to the Lord with cheerful voice,

00:02:21hymns had with mercy's praise for tell.

00:02:31Please, come in.

00:02:33Take a seat.

00:02:42So, I am happy to tell you that the Director General of Internal Affairs

00:02:46will grant you the necessary documents.

00:02:49Your expedition to the northwest region of our country can go ahead.

00:02:54But, please, we are very impressed with the care taken with your preparations.

00:02:59You've been commendably thorough.

00:03:02But the Kalahari Desert is a dangerous place.

00:03:05I don't mean the terrorists.

00:03:07That has been highly exaggerated.

00:03:09If we had anything to hide, would we let you go there?

00:03:12No, my dear friends, now all official obstacles have been removed.

00:03:17Think one more time of the physical risks involved.

00:03:23No?

00:03:27No.

00:03:28Then, all that remains is for me to give you your permits.

00:03:36My congratulations.

00:03:38Thank you very much.

00:03:41And a little gift.

00:04:03Lord, who has led thy servants to this desert of the fallen world,

00:04:09look upon my family with thy kindly grace.

00:04:14May my faith be for them thy pillar of cloud by day,

00:04:20thy pillar of fire by night.

00:04:34And, Lord, grant a sinner's supplication.

00:04:40Appear in a dream to the secretaries of the London Missionary Society

00:04:48to tell them of our plight.

00:04:52No, flowers.

00:04:53It's not flowers, Hosea.

00:04:55It's grass for the desert.

00:05:04Get his head off.

00:05:07No, it's John Ball's head.

00:05:09John Ball's got to have his head off.

00:05:14Sand in the clothes.

00:05:17Insects eating the linen.

00:05:20We must shake everything out.

00:05:21Twice, three times every day.

00:05:24All day, if we have to.

00:05:25Get his head off.

00:05:26No, no.

00:05:27Jonah, Daniel, stop the swaddling.

00:05:29It's John Ball's head, Mama.

00:05:30He's got to have his head in the middle.

00:05:32Like the savage his father is to find to bring to Jesus.

00:05:35You come on like that, Jonah,

00:05:36and your good father will strap you blue.

00:05:40Yes, Mama.

00:05:47Africa hair.

00:05:49Your young brothers will breathe insolence from it.

00:05:52No more than from the air of Lambeth, Mama.

00:05:55No children should see what you have seen in this country.

00:05:57Babies blind with disease.

00:05:59Men yoked by the neck of slaves.

00:06:02There are diseased eyes in Lambeth too, Mama.

00:06:05And are not all men before the Lord yoked in sin.

00:06:08Oh, Ruth.

00:06:09You should be in England.

00:06:11Under the Christian roof of a Christian house.

00:06:15Taking tea with a young man.

00:06:18Little cakes and a homely fire.

00:06:21Should you not, my dear.

00:06:23We are sent by Christ to this place.

00:06:25As a Christian family to convert the men with no heads.

00:06:31The men with no heads.

00:06:35Are we not, Mama?

00:06:38Yes, Ruth.

00:06:40Yes.

00:06:41What animals the boys have seen.

00:06:44Giraffes eating trees.

00:06:46Now, what would giraffes eat in Lambeth?

00:06:48Dirty roofs.

00:06:50The noses off old gossips, upstairs windows,

00:06:53spying on their neighbours.

00:06:54I was not a dream.

00:06:59Yes.

00:07:00Yes.

00:07:01You know.

00:07:02That's good.

00:07:03Oh, your knees love.

00:07:08Oh, your knees love.

00:07:10La, la, la, la, la.

00:07:12Oh, your knees love.

00:07:14Love.

00:07:15La, la, la.

00:07:16Oh, your knees.

00:07:43I do wish my uncle were not.

00:07:47We bring the world with us.

00:07:53Thus said the Lord God of Israel to me,

00:07:59Take the wine cup of this my fury at my hand,

00:08:03and cause the nations to whom I send thee to drink it,

00:08:08and they shall drink and be moved and be mad.

00:08:14Esther, you're not to speak to your uncle.

00:08:16I'm not speaking to him, Mama.

00:08:18Just whisper it.

00:08:26Four more bottles remain, little Esther,

00:08:29of London gin,

00:08:34lugs to Africa shore.

00:08:38And you better not pick up the bottle, uncle.

00:08:42Why should I do that, Esther?

00:08:44Someone passing will cut their food.

00:08:48Oh, God!

00:08:50Christians that come after us,

00:08:52to go to the land of the headless men

00:08:53when fathers made them repent and wear clothes.

00:08:57If the headless men are to wear clothes, Esther,

00:09:01how will they see through their shirts?

00:09:03They'll have holes cut in them.

00:09:05Even Hosea knows that, and he's only three.

00:09:08Esther!

00:09:12And Hosea's not drunk all the time, is he?

00:09:17Why are you drunk all the time, uncle?

00:09:20Yeah, I see things.

00:09:21Things?

00:09:25The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Esther.

00:09:29Can you see them now?

00:09:33No.

00:09:33Oh.

00:09:34Oh, no.

00:09:35Were they beautiful, the gardens?

00:09:38Oh, yeah.

00:09:41Paradise on earth.

00:09:44It's the only paradise that can be.

00:09:52I've lost my faith, Esther.

00:09:56Surrounding to the sands of this,

00:09:58a filthy place.

00:10:00Do you still believe the Lord Jesus can save?

00:10:06The Lord Jesus is in all our hearts.

00:10:11What a thing for a young girl to have in her heart.

00:10:15A corpse on a cross, rotted for 1800 years.

00:10:18Esther.

00:10:21Bearer.

00:10:24Bearer pops still greasy.

00:10:25We cannot spare water, we will scour them with sand.

00:10:29But that from when we eat, we'll be clean.

00:10:31What in the name of all the sand?

00:10:34What are you doing here?

00:10:37By raiment my life.

00:10:39Like a sweet meadow.

00:10:42From one end of the earth to the other.

00:10:48Skin is white.

00:10:52Smells.

00:10:54And Lord.

00:10:58Look upon my brother here.

00:11:02And burn him.

00:11:07And burn him.

00:11:18Not there, brother.

00:11:21The headless savages.

00:11:23The missionary society sent us forth.

00:11:26The fairy tale from the old books of travellers.

00:11:33The gentlemen of the missionary society are ignorant gentlemen.

00:11:37The Lord will provide.

00:11:41Provide a race of men with heads in the chest for you to preach, eh?

00:11:46It is faith.

00:11:50And how can faith make men, women and children with ears and their armpits just come into existence?

00:11:58That's a faith!

00:12:02It's a second imagination.

00:12:05The Lord sustaineth.

00:12:08He does not!

00:12:15You look at your family!

00:12:18Look at them!

00:12:21The bodies!

00:12:22The souls!

00:12:24Cry out!

00:12:27This journey is against nature itself!

00:12:31That's nothing for us here, only the centre of our bones!

00:12:38And you should be seeking out, wherever it is you do seek out, in the slums of Lambeth, yeah?

00:12:43Among real people!

00:12:49Men with no heads.

00:12:52In the name of reason.

00:12:54In the name of reason.

00:12:55In the name of reason.

00:12:56I know the name of your reason, brother.

00:13:00It is Mr. Reason Beelzebub, the devil's lieutenant.

00:13:05With reason?

00:13:06You can make the slums of Lambeth into palaces.

00:13:09With reason?

00:13:11You can make even this desert a god.

00:13:15And what is reason made of you, brother?

00:13:17Ah, piss!

00:13:19Drunkard!

00:13:26That's just myself, aren't we?

00:13:29The vessel doth contaminate the content, huh?

00:13:36Why must the weak always be right, and the strong always wrong?

00:13:42Huh?

00:13:50Laaaaaah!

00:13:52Laaaaaah!

00:13:55Laaaaaah!

00:14:13I'm all right, I'm all right.

00:14:17George?

00:14:20George?

00:14:34Will you shut up and help me?

00:14:51Get her, get her spit.

00:14:54Just watch you then.

00:14:55Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:15:20Petrol!

00:15:23Petrol!

00:15:37Get her stuff out.

00:15:39Bloody tent.

00:16:18Untertitelung im Auftrag des ZDF, 2020

00:16:27I thought we were rocking it I said rocket yes I know you said rocket what's

00:16:33the problem then it's no problem great then wonderful

00:16:48dark it's light and then can't get used to that does something to me

00:17:00are you ready I am yes

00:17:09okay very wonderful oh that's a great very when you were driving you turned the

00:17:25over riddling the wheel to the music all right fate takes a hand

00:17:44it's a bit of adventure George is lying in that tent unconscious because of your

00:17:50bit of adventure no bones broke I mean George will love all this when he comes

00:17:54around you're bloody irresponsible fate takes a hand what do you want me to

00:17:59say sorry yes please you can't stand the sight of me can you I've got to look at

00:18:08that radio can't stand a sight let's not start tearing each other apart this is

00:18:15the first thing that's gone wrong so let's just put it right

00:18:21right all for me coming back home no weren't you a what working class and

00:18:26unemployed old jolly hockey sticks maybe you'll go native oh for crying out loud

00:18:31yeah redundancy money came in handy though didn't it but a jolly expedition fund

00:18:37oh three thousand quid for this experience must be mad why can't you say it why can't you say you're

00:18:47sick scared

00:18:48because George could die because George could die and it's all your fault

00:18:58oh so

00:19:03so

00:19:07come on

00:19:09come come out

00:19:16oh

00:19:17oh

00:19:20oh

00:19:22oh

00:19:42There's someone out there, eh?

00:19:45Because if there's someone out there, we're here with a bit of brother.

00:19:48There's someone out there.

00:19:59Summer.

00:20:18Old raised.

00:20:20That's your partner.

00:20:23That's your partner.

00:20:25I'm up with my father.

00:20:28He's a good man.

00:20:29He's a good man.

00:20:31He's a good man.

00:20:32Oh, Vanessa.

00:20:37Joga.

00:20:40I'm not going to go.

00:21:04Article 5 continued, stop.

00:21:07Now we have personal problems, stop.

00:21:12We've all heard of friendships, marriages, love affairs breaking up and people never speaking to each other again after a

00:21:19simple camping holiday by the sea, stop.

00:21:22Imagine how much greater are the problems on an expedition like this, stop.

00:21:27Murder would be light relief, stop.

00:21:32Stop.

00:21:32There is an old Arab proverb, stop.

00:21:36The hate between those who cross the desert is a flower of the desert.

00:21:42Stop.

00:21:44Weeding out the old Arab proverbs, are we?

00:21:48I made it up just then.

00:21:59I'm sorry.

00:22:02It was my bloody fault.

00:22:06And I am sick scared.

00:22:14How is he?

00:22:18I think he's getting a bit hot.

00:22:44Oh, Georgie, Georgie, what have you got me into?

00:22:54Hello, my boy.

00:22:56Hello, my boy.

00:22:57Enzymes in the pituitary gland in rabbits.

00:23:01Sorry.

00:23:02But doing experiments on rabbits.

00:23:05Oh, rabbits.

00:23:07Hey.

00:23:09Ten years ago, if you'd said what would happen with four million unemployed, you'd have been told the social fabric

00:23:16would never stand it.

00:23:17There'd be riots in the streets.

00:23:19There have been riots in the streets.

00:23:21What?

00:23:23Oh, yeah.

00:23:24Then he said to me, I'm spreading myself as thin as margarine.

00:23:30And then he burst into tears.

00:23:32Oh, yuck.

00:23:33What did he say?

00:23:34Then I said to him, on bread or on the rug.

00:23:42Charming.

00:23:43Missionaries.

00:23:43A whole family.

00:23:45They disappeared.

00:23:46In the, uh...

00:23:48In the Kalahari Desert.

00:23:49Two brothers, the wife of one of them, and six children.

00:23:52Never heard of again.

00:23:55And the purpose of your expedition is to follow where they went.

00:23:58Oh, yeah.

00:23:59There's more to it.

00:24:00More to it than that.

00:24:02What's really interesting is the people the missionaries set out to find.

00:24:05To bring to Jesus.

00:24:06A truly amazing race.

00:24:09Men and women.

00:24:11Without heads.

00:24:13It's a lovely jellyfish.

00:24:14No heads.

00:24:16Right.

00:24:16Faces in their chests.

00:24:18Their sinuses will be connected to their lungs.

00:24:21Are you serious?

00:24:22Facts.

00:24:23It's all documented.

00:24:24By an Italian explorer in the 17th century named Giovanni Botero.

00:24:29In 1620 he crossed the south of Africa and met them.

00:24:33Well, I found a book he'd written about his journey in the British Museum.

00:24:37It had pictures.

00:24:40So give them a photo stat.

00:24:43Then, there's a story of the city of salt in the Kalahari.

00:24:47The city of the headless.

00:24:49In 1956, two Portuguese prospectors said they'd seen it.

00:24:53The South African Air Force did an aerial survey to find it.

00:24:56And did they?

00:24:59No.

00:25:01But what were they looking for?

00:25:03A city in a pattern that we know.

00:25:08See what these amazing travellers tales are about.

00:25:13What?

00:25:14It's evolution going in for human engineering on an incredible scale.

00:25:18Things like your brain running down to the bottom of your spine.

00:25:23A headless mother suckling her baby through her ears.

00:25:26Your heart will be in your throat.

00:25:29Sounds a bit revolting when you think about it at first.

00:25:32But what we've got here is an account of the human race transformed.

00:25:38Made anew.

00:25:39You are 100% off your rocket.

00:25:41You know that, mate.

00:25:43And who are you?

00:25:44Oh, I wander around the streets when I see a wanky student party.

00:25:47I gate crush it for the booze.

00:25:49Any comments?

00:25:51Your trouble is you haven't got any vision.

00:25:53And you have?

00:25:54People with noses sticking out of their belly buttons.

00:25:56I can see you're an intelligent person.

00:25:58A bit burky.

00:25:59But intelligent people often are.

00:26:01You see, the difficulty people like you are in,

00:26:04is without vision, intelligence is just pissing in the wind.

00:26:09Like with the headless people.

00:26:11Just because a fact is unknown,

00:26:13doesn't mean to say it's not a fact.

00:26:23Are you with him?

00:26:25George and I are the expedition that you are celebrating.

00:26:27To this desert.

00:26:29Is he safe?

00:26:31Oh, George is highly organised.

00:26:33A wizard.

00:26:35He's talked all sorts of people into giving us money.

00:26:37I mean, I don't tell people with money that I'm looking for people without heads.

00:26:43I just tell them what they want to hear.

00:26:45George has only bananas in his mind.

00:26:47I'm an incurable optimist.

00:26:49I believe that somewhere on the planet, there's a person you can go up to who will tell you the

00:26:54secret of life.

00:26:55Even if you do get the answer through its navel.

00:26:58And sadly, this party's a bit of a funeral wake.

00:27:01We're 3,000 pounds short.

00:27:03The Scottish biscuit firm that promised 3,000 pulled out this morning.

00:27:07So, the expedition's off.

00:27:10It seemed a pity not to have a party since we made the jellies.

00:27:14So?

00:27:19What was it for you then?

00:27:21Going on this madness.

00:27:24How will I ever know?

00:27:35I've got 3,000 pound.

00:27:37Ah!

00:27:38I was at Vauxhall's Luton.

00:27:39I was made redundant.

00:27:41They've got a robot doing what I did now.

00:27:44That redundancy money came through last week.

00:27:46I cashed it.

00:27:47Well, you know, pride.

00:27:51Fate takes a hand.

00:27:54At one condition, I go with you.

00:27:57Even a desert full of headless man's got to be better than bloody Luton.

00:28:01I'm glad you believe in fate.

00:28:05Let's get pissed.

00:28:18Hello?

00:28:34I was absolutely 있는스트.

00:28:37I surgery after your passing.

00:28:37I'm scared.

00:28:41I'm scared.

00:28:43Wait, look.

00:29:13Oh, ow, you, oh.

00:29:16Oh

00:29:49Oh

00:29:50Toyah

00:29:51It's Toyah

00:29:52Hey, I've got Toyah

00:29:54Do you?

00:29:59I don't understand

00:30:10How is he?

00:30:12He's the same

00:30:37Oh

00:30:38Oh

00:30:39Oh

00:30:53Oh

00:31:04Oh

00:31:05Know how to use this

00:31:07Oh, I thought you were gonna learn that as backup navigator to George

00:31:11I did

00:31:13I've forgotten

00:31:16And one of us may have to start walking

00:31:19I just got Toyah Wilcox

00:31:27Where is she now?

00:31:35It's only been 48 hours

00:31:37I mean no one really gets lost

00:31:40Not these days

00:31:42You know

00:31:43You've only got satellites up there photograph every inch of this planet

00:31:47Yay

00:31:49Yeah, all we gotta worry about is if the water runs out we're gonna be on Diet Pepsi all the

00:31:54way

00:31:59Ow

00:32:00Yeah

00:32:00Whoa

00:32:01Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

00:32:02Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

00:32:04It's all right

00:32:06It's my key

00:32:09My flat

00:32:10My flat

00:32:11In the Fulham Road

00:32:16Between this key and its lock draw a straight line

00:32:20Through Africa

00:32:23How many

00:32:26Children going to bed in black republics does that line touch?

00:32:31How many corpses beside the road in black tyrannies?

00:32:35Fields of maize

00:32:37Dead cattle in droughts

00:32:40Trains packed with migrants

00:32:43Tidy villages

00:32:45City slums

00:32:49Fishermen

00:32:49Bauxite miners

00:32:52Gorillas in the camps

00:32:53Prisoners in the jails

00:32:57Farms

00:32:58Hospitals

00:33:00Hydroelectric dams

00:33:02Chinese railway engines

00:33:04Russian tractors

00:33:08How many?

00:33:10Students pouring over angles

00:33:14White mining engineers getting into the Johnny Walker

00:33:18Between me and my front door

00:33:23Under the sun

00:33:29Me

00:33:30I'm just a tourist

00:33:38All that hope

00:33:40All that violence

00:33:54What do they mean the spirit of the agreement?

00:33:57All that hope

00:33:58All that violence

00:34:00If I go on this I can write about it first hand

00:34:04Is there a chicken in here?

00:34:06What?

00:34:07I heard a cluck

00:34:07Oh, I heard a cluck

00:34:09Desert journey

00:34:10Well, I can do stuff on it for the woman's page too

00:34:13The tampax in the sand, eh?

00:34:15That sort of thing

00:34:17They can't do that, Freddie

00:34:19We've lost 300,000 copies this month already

00:34:22Freddie, Freddie, the father of the chapel's with you

00:34:25Right, put him on now

00:34:30I heard it again

00:34:31There is a chicken in here

00:34:33This epidemic of practical jokes has got to stop

00:34:36I am the editor of a national newspaper

00:34:38I know I'm young for the job

00:34:40But it's not dignified

00:34:41I want to tell the truth about Africa

00:34:45Jesus Christ

00:34:47Give me security

00:34:53Hope and violence, eh?

00:34:58This desert journey of yours

00:34:59Some kind of personal quest

00:35:02All right, take three months off

00:35:04Across a desert, have a baby

00:35:05What do you like?

00:35:08Thanks

00:35:08But beware

00:35:10All journalism tends toward the condition of shit

00:35:13Who said that?

00:35:14All journalism

00:35:15Sheep

00:35:17You

00:35:23You

00:35:24You

00:35:28You

00:35:29You

00:35:30You

00:35:32You

00:35:33You

00:36:12What are you doing?

00:36:37What are you doing?

00:36:57Why do you have to have me?

00:37:05Why can't I have you?

00:37:09Why are you so bloody working club?

00:37:23Why do you have to have me?

00:37:27Why do you have me?

00:37:30Why do I have this?

00:37:32Why did I have this?

00:37:34Why can't I have this?

00:37:36Have I been a little bit?

00:37:37That's what I have shamed.

00:37:40.

00:37:41How did you drink the dish?

00:37:43Where you put it?

00:37:44There you are.

00:37:45You are too lazy.

00:37:48That's what you're getting.

00:37:51Yunga.

00:37:53Must tell you what you want?

00:37:56What do you want?

00:37:57What do you want?

00:37:59Do you want to bring it to the ranch?

00:38:01Oh, sure.

00:38:03We are going to work because we are making it together and the sand is got on.

00:38:11We are going to work with our wives and women

00:38:14We are not going to get back from the corner.

00:38:17We are going to work with her.

00:39:00I don't know.

00:39:25I don't know.

00:39:43I think you planned that.

00:39:46I think you decided on that.

00:39:48Oh, shut up.

00:39:48I think you had that on a list.

00:39:52Yeah, well, you can tick that one off now.

00:39:55I've got the hidden depths to you.

00:40:09Jake.

00:40:10Hello.

00:40:11Hello.

00:40:12If all things aren't possible here, between us here, stuck here, then where else can they

00:40:22be possible?

00:40:25Oh, I don't get you.

00:40:28You mean you want to turn this desert disaster into some kind of experiment on my body?

00:40:34Can a woman rape a man?

00:40:36Oh, how flat it is there?

00:40:41You and me there.

00:40:45I could cry.

00:40:47I am hungry.

00:40:51I have some freeze-dried ravioli.

00:40:53We'd have to wet it.

00:40:57I meant hungry for experience.

00:41:04And it's a vice.

00:41:08What do you want from me?

00:41:11Philosophy?

00:41:12Moral uplift?

00:41:16If you tried to take me on this expedition of yours, I'd be arrested and end up in a

00:41:23South African concentration camp.

00:41:28We breathe the same air, Susan, but we cannot occupy the same space.

00:41:39The European notion of exploration.

00:41:45The notion that enlightenment is in foreign parts.

00:41:54You want advice, you say, about the politics of the countryside you will travel through.

00:42:03You're concerned, whites.

00:42:06You're so decent.

00:42:10You want me to say that the struggle for liberation on my continent is cleaner than any other.

00:42:17More humanitarian.

00:42:20But it is not.

00:42:23It is a struggle.

00:42:26There have been struggles on your continent.

00:42:28Tourists visit the mass graves to this day.

00:42:32You see, I fear you're dishonest.

00:42:37Your concern, your decency, only masks how your culture has always seen mine.

00:42:46There's something prurient, something deeply ugly in the European hunger for experience.

00:42:56Africa is still to you some kind of a slave ship.

00:43:00You still fantasize about black, thick naked bodies down below, writhing in the filthy hold.

00:43:10That is the historic image that Europe has of Africa.

00:43:16And it will never leave you.

00:43:19And you will never understand the liberation struggles of the third world until your wealth decays.

00:43:29And you, in your turn, have lived in chains.

00:43:37Miss White Lady.

00:43:43Miss White Lady.

00:43:51Miss...

00:43:52How many million dead?

00:44:01Miss...

00:44:02Miss...

00:44:03Miss...

00:44:12Jake!

00:44:14He's woken up!

00:44:16Jake!

00:44:19Where are you?

00:44:21George has woken up!

00:44:25Jake!

00:44:26He's woken up!

00:44:26Yeah, yeah, alright, I'm coming!

00:44:35What's going on?

00:44:37Jake!

00:44:42You've been eating!

00:44:43No, not...

00:44:45But we're gonna ration things!

00:44:47We are! You pig!

00:44:49Pig!

00:44:51Pig!

00:44:52You look terrible!

00:44:56What have you gone and done to yourselves?

00:45:03Oh!

00:45:07George!

00:45:10We crashed the Land Rover!

00:45:12The radio's passed!

00:45:14We thought that one of us should start walking!

00:45:18But the sextant!

00:45:19I'd forgotten how to use it!

00:45:20We've just been waiting for you to come round!

00:45:23Ten days!

00:45:24Nine!

00:45:24Ten!

00:45:25Ten!

00:45:27So...

00:45:27As expedition leader...

00:45:30What do you recommend?

00:45:40Interesting...

00:45:41George!

00:45:43George!

00:45:43Hang on in there!

00:45:45Don't conquer out whatever you do!

00:45:46Just hang on in there!

00:45:50George!

00:46:07It's a sextant!

00:46:10Progress!

00:46:10How do you work it?

00:46:13Oh, yeah.

00:46:17Look through the hole in the sight of a henge.

00:46:19Yes, I remember that bit.

00:46:22Sight it on the star of your choice.

00:46:24Star of your choice?

00:46:27In the unsilvered half of the mirror.

00:46:30Yeah, yeah, right!

00:46:33Rotate...

00:46:34...the unsilvered half of the mirror...

00:46:37...until your second star...

00:46:40...is coincidental with your friend.

00:46:42Uh, second star?

00:46:47Second star of your choice.

00:46:51Then...

00:46:52...read the angular distance...

00:46:54...between the two stars.

00:46:56Good.

00:47:14Jesus.

00:47:15Let us stand even for the light of the light...

00:47:19...grovin and warmest...

00:47:20...the stars...

00:47:25...and another star.

00:47:25...hello!

00:47:26The hill of Sharon's dewy woes

00:47:34Oh such a child whose early feet

00:47:43The paths of peace have trod

00:47:48Whose secret heart with influence sweet

00:47:56Is upward drawn to heart

00:48:08Sublime and ridiculous is so nearly related

00:48:13One step above the sublime makes ridiculous

00:48:19One step above the ridiculous makes the supply of the game

00:48:35What's the matter?

00:48:39The mirror, it cracked

00:48:44You bastard, you broke it

00:48:47You did

00:48:48It looks alright to me

00:48:50It is, it's cracked

00:48:52Don't worry, they'll turn up

00:48:55Who? What, the Bushmen? No, no, I think the Bushmen are all dead, George

00:48:59No, not Bushmen

00:49:02Who then? But come on, not that lot with heads in their chest

00:49:05Can you spare us that, please?

00:49:06George!

00:49:07Burn

00:49:11No, no, no

00:49:16No, no, no

00:49:17No, no, no, no

00:49:23Broome family

00:49:28The missionaries

00:49:32They're here.

00:49:36They know all there is to know about survival.

00:49:42I mean, they've been out here since 1848.

00:49:48Yeah.

00:49:50It's knowing what to do to yourself.

00:49:55Like a new science.

00:49:57They've got so far on with it.

00:50:01If they go blind, they grow new eyes.

00:50:06My will and power.

00:50:08I picked it up from the endless wonders, did I?

00:50:12They won't talk about that.

00:50:14That's secret.

00:50:16Jake.

00:50:17Of course, surviving like that,

00:50:20there's a lot of pain involved.

00:50:24We'll have to get into training.

00:50:27George, just...

00:50:28Just for a smoke.

00:50:31Is there any Pepsi left?

00:50:33What?

00:50:33I could do with a Pepsi.

00:50:36Yeah, yeah.

00:50:37Just, you know, don't go well, son.

00:50:43Oh.

00:50:47What are we going to do?

00:50:51Don't ask me.

00:50:52You do something.

00:50:54Don't sulk.

00:50:54I'm not sulking.

00:50:56We're gonna die.

00:50:57And all you can do is sulk.

00:50:59You bloody stupid cow.

00:51:02We're gonna die!

00:51:06We're gonna die!

00:51:10We'll die!

00:51:11And I'm the one who's not used.

00:51:14Haha.

00:51:15I'm not doing it.

00:51:16But how are we going to die?

00:51:23And I'll die.

00:51:24I can't do it.

00:51:34You are not doing it.

00:51:34The rest of us are doing nothing.

00:51:37I'm not so sorry.

00:51:37I'm not saving.

00:51:40Right, right, pain training.

00:51:58My throat's bad.

00:52:05We'll talk about that, then.

00:52:11Julie Christie.

00:52:14What about her?

00:52:17I think she's lovely.

00:52:22Far from the madding crowd with Terrence Stamp.

00:52:26Now there's loveliness.

00:52:28You can't stand in.

00:52:38All the beauties of the world.

00:52:41Well, she is.

00:52:51Let's try and swallow.

00:52:53Let's try.

00:52:55What?

00:53:10What's she doing?

00:53:11You maniac!

00:53:13Come back, you maniac!

00:53:20Do something!

00:53:31Sand!

00:53:33Come to the tent!

00:53:46Swat!

00:53:50Swat!

00:53:59How are we?

00:54:00How are we?

00:54:02We're going to eat it.

00:54:04My son,

00:54:06let me be sick.

00:54:07Yes.

00:54:12Why are you?

00:54:13Ask for a few years.

00:54:15Ask for more,

00:54:16not to help us.

00:54:20No, look.

00:54:21Come on.

00:54:22I'll be back!

00:54:49Sister, brother,

00:54:53you have to lay them down here too, those burdens.

00:54:57And not before your eyes.

00:55:00I'll be your gravedigger, sister, but don't try me too much.

00:55:04Move away, brother.

00:55:11It's Uncle I, will I fall an angel, father?

00:55:13Oh, the mouse, child!

00:55:16Unclean, leper, philistine, hell fiend!

00:55:20Oh, why, brother?

00:55:22I'll be proud to say!

00:55:40City-dweller dreams of the open sea.

00:55:46Sailor in the mast dreams of the roofs and attics of the slums.

00:55:54They in the deserts dream of fields, and they in the fields dream of deserts.

00:56:02And so we spread dissatisfied in anger and in loathing.

00:56:14Oh, they.

00:56:25Thou right hand, O Lord, hath become glorious in power.

00:56:29Thou right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces thy enemy.

00:56:32Thou sendest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble and all its men.

00:56:40And they shall be as still as a stone to lay people but over them.

00:56:45Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods?

00:56:50Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

00:56:58You've broken my leg!

00:57:04What?

00:57:13How did you come to this?

00:57:16How did you?

00:57:19As boys, we stood with Christ against all the scorn?

00:57:27Remember?

00:57:28I had a ton of sons in Olgate when we bore witness in the streets, threw mud pies at us.

00:57:37I was seven years old.

00:57:39I remember.

00:57:41And we talked of Africa even then.

00:57:45Children in bed at night.

00:57:47That, the light to the forest, the joy to praise, the word to the...

00:58:01The word to the deserts.

00:58:10How did I come to this loss of faith?

00:58:15The future brother broke out of me like a fever,

00:58:24Drunk like it.

00:58:33Easy, easy.

00:58:38I shall rather,

00:58:42that men and women of the future live without God.

00:58:51Yes, forgive him.

00:58:52And he is dead.

00:58:57And never lived.

00:58:59For the Lord lives in my heart.

00:59:04How could I live without faith?

00:59:07How could I breathe not in the shadow of mighty wings?

00:59:22I will leave me water.

00:59:28I came to this desert to convert,

00:59:31and was myself converted.

00:59:34Eh, brother?

00:59:35The missionary mission, I'm sick.

00:59:49I land you.

00:59:57Comfort you.

01:00:16No, it was not.

01:00:19I was not mistaken.

01:00:21Your father was not a person with an axe.

01:00:21You have only died in a mountain,

01:00:22You're only lying in the morning.

01:00:22But they'll be fatal.

01:00:22Did you have a terrible heart?

01:00:23You have to kill off his head.

01:00:23You have to kill yourself,

01:00:23and you can't kill them.

01:00:23You don't want to kill them.

01:00:23You won't be able to kill them.

01:00:24I'll kill them.

01:00:27If they kill them.

01:00:34You had too.

01:00:34It was a king.

01:00:41I don't know.

01:01:17I don't know.

01:01:50How long have I been here?

01:01:59There are your mother and your father.

01:02:08Jonah.

01:02:09He's fallen.

01:02:10He's your uncle and he's got a bad leg.

01:02:13He's damned.

01:02:14Get him in the wagon.

01:02:15Father damned him.

01:02:17We should have left him where father did at the gates of hell.

01:02:20Father's dead.

01:02:27Father is on the right hand of the Lord with Mama.

01:02:30In the communion of saints.

01:02:32You are just a hurried little girl.

01:02:34And I'm going to squeeze your heart.

01:02:39We've only got to pray.

01:02:41There'll be manna every morning.

01:02:45Ain't out in the sand like fresh buns.

01:02:48There'll be a tap poking up out of the sand.

01:02:51Yes.

01:02:52All shiny and water to wash our hair that will.

01:02:57Israel.

01:02:58We are Israel.

01:03:00We are the chosen.

01:03:02We've only got to say our prayers.

01:03:04I hate you.

01:03:06I hate you.

01:03:08I hate you.

01:03:10I hate you.

01:03:11Ruth, get me the book.

01:03:17Woman, do not disobey the man.

01:03:47Then his son could make a bear.

01:03:50Then his house rose up in his stead.

01:03:53And all his brethren helped him.

01:03:55And so did all that held with his father.

01:04:00And they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

01:04:05So he got his people great honor.

01:04:08And put on a breastplate as a giant.

01:04:13As a giant.

01:04:16That's me.

01:04:16Reason.

01:04:20Think.

01:04:24Your children.

01:04:26And you.

01:04:29Don't walk around with corpses on your back.

01:04:33Ow!

01:04:36He without fault cast the first stone.

01:04:41Don't walk around!

01:04:42No!

01:04:46Don't walk around!

01:04:50No!

01:04:53No!

01:04:55Esther!

01:04:56No!

01:04:58Then we'll cast you out!

01:05:00No!

01:05:01No!

01:05:04No!

01:05:11It's all dead thoughts in your head, little boy.

01:05:14All the dead thoughts that make you wicked and cruel and so stomp.

01:05:21There are two tribes now, Uncle, in this desert.

01:05:25Mine is Israel.

01:05:27What is yours?

01:05:28Not yours, tribal bones.

01:05:35Ruth, come on.

01:05:40We see angels.

01:05:43We'll send them back for you.

01:05:45Ruth!

01:05:49We are going over to Canaan.

01:06:06What do you think, Esther, my little niece?

01:06:12Are the seeds in this dead?

01:06:16Shall we plant trees and grow grass?

01:06:21Shall we become lovers and have many children in our new past?

01:06:26Yes, I will.

01:06:29Okay, let's go.

01:06:30I'm so happy with you.

01:06:31Can I speak?

01:06:33I will not make you look back for me.

01:06:33I will not make you look back to my mind.

01:06:33I will not make you look back for you.

01:06:42Now, you're thinking a little bit bigger.

01:06:47To your eyes and the eyes of it is the end of the day,

01:06:50You're looking back to your视频.

01:06:51I do not have a word.

01:06:51Oh, God.

01:06:56I will not make you look back to your eyes.

01:07:07I don't know.

01:10:19George...

01:11:00Look at the world.

01:11:02The wonderful world they've found.

01:11:17Nature has no outline.

01:11:18Imagination has...

01:11:41No...

01:11:42Oh...

01:11:45Oh...

01:11:47Oh...

01:11:48Oh...

01:12:10Oh...

01:12:22Oh...

01:12:23Oh...

01:12:25Oh...

01:12:32Oh...

01:13:03Oh...

01:13:05Oh...

01:13:07Oh...

01:13:11Oh...

01:13:12Oh, the strength.

01:13:39I want to live.

01:13:44I do.

01:13:48I do.

01:13:50I do.

01:13:53I do.

01:14:03What are you doing here?

01:14:05I do.

01:14:08I do.

01:14:11I do.

01:14:21I do.

01:14:25I do.

01:14:27I do.

01:14:38I do.

01:14:42I do.

01:14:52I do.

01:15:03I do.

01:15:06I do.

01:15:15I do.

01:15:18I do.

01:15:19I do.

01:15:21I do.

01:15:22I do.

01:15:25I do.

01:15:32I do.

01:15:34I do.

01:15:40I do.

01:15:48I do.

01:15:52I do.

01:15:58I do.

01:16:02I do.

01:16:03I do.

01:16:07I do.

01:16:18I do.

01:16:19I do.

01:16:24I do.

01:16:27I do.

01:16:29I do.

01:16:30I do.

01:17:01I do.

01:17:26I do.

01:17:31I do.

01:17:32I do.

01:17:41I do.

01:17:44I do.

01:17:45I do.

01:17:46I do.

01:17:46Do you know what found you?

01:17:49A photograph taken by a satellite 90 miles above.

01:17:58And now you're going home Susan

01:18:44Oh, the liver, the liver's too salty, the kidneys

01:18:52Where's the kidneys?

01:18:58Oh, the strength, I want to live

01:19:10I do, I do, I do

01:19:26I don't know what to do

01:19:29Cry? Bloody marvellous Sue

01:19:37No, not now

01:19:42How's your little girl?

01:19:45She's fine

01:19:46I don't know her name

01:19:48You wouldn't be able to pronounce it

01:19:51No

01:19:56Sue

01:19:56Can I take the tapes now?

01:19:59Yeah, sure, I'd love copies though

01:20:03How to do this

01:20:07Have you thought of a book?

01:20:09We'd have serial rights

01:20:10Run extracts in the weekend section

01:20:14What's the matter?

01:20:17I'm not going to write the articles

01:20:22Well, if you need more time

01:20:26No

01:20:30Come on, sweetie

01:20:30What is this?

01:20:32You've not been to a Sunday behind my back, have you?

01:20:35Sorry

01:20:37Unworthy

01:20:40But for God's sake

01:20:41We sent you to the bloody desert

01:20:44We talked you into it

01:20:45How about some loyalty?

01:20:47I know loyalty may not mean much to someone who contemplated cannibalism

01:20:52Sorry

01:20:52Also unworthy

01:20:56But for God's sake

01:20:58You nearly died

01:21:00You lived in the stone age for 12 months and came back healthy

01:21:04With a kid

01:21:07For crying out loud

01:21:08People will want to know what you thought of that experience

01:21:11What do you think of it now?

01:21:16No

01:21:17I haven't anything to say

01:21:22I just got lost in the desert

01:21:26Why tell lies about it?

01:22:01What do you think of it?

01:22:18The

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